Veneer-cutter.



.No. 747,327. PATENTED DBO. 22,"-1903.

/ J. WOL FINGBR.

VENEER CUTTER.

APPLICATION IILED JAN. 31, 1903.

10 MODEL.

said cutter.

UNITED STATES Patented December 2Q, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

VENEER-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 747,827, dated December 2, 03- Application filed January 31, 1903. Serial No. 141.265. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WOLFINGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Dundas, in the county of Calumet and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Veneer-Outters; and I' do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for its ultimate object to make barrel-staves from wood veneer, the material being crozed and sometimes chamfered simultaneous with the cutting of same from the log. Hence said invention consists in a veneer-cutter and the attachments therewith hereinafter more particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a perspective view of a veneer-cutter provided with attachments that constitute crozing and chamfering knives; Fig. 2, a diagram illustrating the improved cutter in working position; and Fig. 3, a view indicated by line 3 3 in the second figure, the veneer being in section.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates a cutter such as is ordinarily employed for reducing a log to wood veneer, and in accordance with my invention this cutter is shown provided with knife attachments B B for crozing and chamfering the veneer as the same is cut, the product being thereafter trimmed, cut, and split to form a lot of barrel-stares.

The knife attachments B are arranged on the cutter A near the ends of same, and the knife attachment B is on said cutter central of same equidistant from the other knife attachments, all of these attachments being im mediately adjacent to the edge of the afore- Each attachment B is shown as being an angular shell tapered toward the cutting edge of the aforesaid cutter and having struck-up cutting-ridges b 0, these ridges serving to croze and chamfer the wood veneer G as the same is cut from a log; but in practice the chamfering-ridge may be omitted. Both ridges are longitudinally tapered in a reverse direction to the shell, from which they are struck up, and while the crozingridge is transversely triangular the chamfering-ridge is only approximately so, its sides being concavo-convex.

The knife attachment B is similar to the ones B, except that it is provided with two crozing-ridges b in opposite directions from a central chamfering-ridge c, and all the attachments are shown as being separately provided with longitudinally-slotted side ears (1,

engaged by bolts 6, that also engage the veneer-cutter, said attachments being adjusted from time to time on said cutter to aline the cutting edges of both.

The cutter A, provided with the attachments B B, as herein shown, is intended for crozing and chamfering the strip 0 of wood veneer, as shown in Fig. 3, so that this strip may be cut intermediate 'of its width into two sections, each of which is subsequently split to form barrel-staves, said veneer having been edge-trimmed close to the chamfers cut byv the attachments B aforesaid; but it is within the scope of my invention to provide shorter cutters, each having the attachment B omitted and the remaining attachments B made with or without chamferingridges, the ehamfers not being necessary in straight barrels.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 4 l. A wood-veneer cutter provided thereon with adjustable angular shells tapered toward the cutting edge of said cutter to which they are adjacent and which have transversely-triangular croze-cutting ridges struck up therefrom to taper in a direction opposite that of the shells themselves.

2. A wood-veneer cutter provided thereon with adjustable angular shells tapered toward the cutting edge of said cutter to which they are adjacent and which have transversely-triangular croze-cutting ridges and approximately transversely triangular chamfer-cutting ridges struck up therefrom to taper in a direction opposite that of the shells themselves.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my-hand, at Dundas, in the county of Calumet and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH WOLFINGER. 

